Answer:
Executive agencies report directly to the president, and the heads of those agencies are members of the president’s cabinet. Defense, Interior, State and so on.
independent agencies are usually set up by Congress and the president has less power in getting rid of the head. FCC for example, the chairman is appointed by the president but for a set term, and meanwhile the chairman is part of a five person board.
Answer:
The Farmers’ Alliances were not successful in influencing national farm policy in favor of farmers and needed to form a national political party as a result.
Explanation:
The Farmers’ Alliances were formed in 1875. in hopes to improve the economic conditions of agrarian workers.
The movement was made out of a few separate organizations -
- whites on the South had the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union
- in the Midwest, there was the National Farmers' Alliance for both white and black farmers
- African Americans on the South had their own Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union
As the economic movement, this Alliance didn't have much success. It wasn't united or influential and didn't have much of a political impact.
<u>That is why, finally, Alliance decided to turn into the political movement with its own political candidate. In the early 1890s, Alliance formed the Populist (People's) Party which fought for the ideas of the Alliance, but with the political background and force. </u>
No, the south thought of slavery as a way of life. Without slaves they thought daily life would be extremely hard and if not impossible.
Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and 5 years of continuous residence on that land.
